‘Never any hesitation’: Trump was quickly persuaded to support memo’s releaseby wpjljron Friday, February 2nd, 2018.‘Never any hesitation’: Trump was quickly persuaded to support memo’s releasePresident Trump was only vaguely aware of a controversial, classified memo about the FBI’s Russia investigation when two House conservatives brought it to his attention in a Jan. 18 phone call. The conversation piqued Trump’s interest. Over the next two weeks, according to interviews with eight senior administration officials and other advisers to the president, […] President Trump was only vaguely aware of a controversial, classified memo about the FBI’s Russia investigation when two House conservatives brought it to his attention in a Jan. 18 phone call.